by Adem Ait Fonollà | Nov 7, 2023 | AI, research
The development of empirical studies in Open-Source Software (OSS) requires large amounts of data regarding software development events and developer actions, which are typically collected from code hosting platforms. Code hosting platforms are built on top of a...
by Marcos Gomez | Oct 24, 2023 | AI, Programming, research, Tool
Chatbots are a fundamental part of most development projects and therefore a key element of the (under development) BESSER low-code platform. We needed a solution that met our requirements for the easy definition and subsequent generation and execution of chatbots....
by Jordi Cabot | Dec 30, 2022 | AI, research
Given the growing importance of bots in all aspects of our digital live (including in software engineering!) and the well-known challenges to test any type of NLP intensive bot, we could definitely use a series of de facto standard datasets to soundly evaluate and...
by Jordi Cabot | Aug 18, 2022 | research
Software Engineering bots are applications able to react to external stimuli such as events triggered by tools or messages posted by users and run automated tasks in response, working as an interface between users and services. Bots often include conversational...
by Marcos Gomez | Aug 7, 2022 | AI, Architecture, research
Open data is a wonderful idea, but we have already argued that all the public time and money invested in creating and publishing open data resources has a very minimal impact on our society. For instance, city halls complain that very few people use their open data...
by Adem Ait Fonollà | Apr 25, 2022 | Community, research
As you all know, Open Source software (OSS) proposes a collaborative development model where the code is accessible and anyone can contribute. However, this very own collaborative nature becomes one of its main sources of problems, as developers abandoning the project...